Ofario's new guise!

[laurence703]

Hey! As some of you will know, I have had a few problems with the paint on my mamod tender... And thus it will need to be stripped completely and started again...
I needed my loco to be presentable for this weekend's trip to north wales and so I decided to make it a tank loco once more. An order was placed with Dream Steam for a cab back, some bufferbeams and some much needed steam oil. It arrived yesterday and work began on making a tender loco into a tank loco once more.

The downside to this is the inability to access the meths burner with ease but this has been solved with much filing, an 0 ring, a cut down bolt and a mamod coupling bar... I now have a bung that seals and is easy to remove with a pair of pliers (saves getting fingers burnt).

Anywho enough chit chat! Here's some photos!



Test fit! I brought a Maroon one as the loco was originally maroon... Also because having a red primer underneath green is supposed to make the green really nice! I don't know if this is true or not...








The new bung in place. Before this little modification I was using the cut down bolt on its own which is ok when in tender guise as I can get the pliers in to take it out.


This required alot of patience to make being without a workshop or a lathe... My bedroom is my workshop and hand tools rein supreme!... I need a lathe... lol this took far too long!

[Chris Cairns]

I like the short cab back.

I've been meaning to get another cab back and try and replicate this one as fitted to an ebay IP Jane with the coal loading hatch.



Bungs for the meths burners are something that gets lost over time so your bung fitting looks good. However have you fitted it with a vent hole, as when the meths get hot the tank needs venting to release the vapour pressure?

I have 2 IP Jane's which came with meths burners and both had lost their bungs. I do not use a bung and just fill them up using a syringe with a short length of silicon tube attached. So far I've had no flare ups, although the combustion chamber on the IP Jane's has a better wing at the rear, whereas the Mamod/MSS combustion chamber has a horizontal wing at the rear to allow the fitting of the supplied solid fuel burner tray. This can allow meths flames to get into the cab and melt the plastic sight glass.

Chris Cairns.

[laurence703]

for a vent hole i was going to simply drill a small hole in the side of the tank at the top to act as an overflow and to allow the air to escape whilst filling it